Sramana 2016 04

Author(s): Shreeprakash Pandey, Rahulkumar Singh, Omprakash Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi

Page 64

Reconsidering the Date of the Nirvāṇa of Lord Mahāvira : 57
Thus at least three of the six inscriptional evidences prove that the Nirvāņa of Mahāvīra took place in 467 B.C. whereas the two evidences may prove 527 B.C. as the period of Vīra Nirvāņa. But the dates based on the Pattāvalis could be incorrect; therefore, they cannot be an obstacle in determining the date of the Vīra Nirvāņa as 467 B.C. One of these inscriptions is not helpful in fixing the date. These discrepancies are there also because the authenticity of the periods of the Ācāryas given in the Pattāvalī is doubtful and today, we have no ground to remove these discrepancies. Still we derive from this discussion, that most of the textual and inscriptional evidences confirm the date of Mahāvīra's Nirvāņa as 467 B.C. In that case, one will have to accept the date of the Nirvāņa of Buddha to be 483 B.C., which has been accepted by most of the western scholars, and only then it will he proved that about 15 years (14 years and 5 months) after the Nirvāņa of Buddha the Nirvāṇa of Mahāvīra took place. References:
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Tiloypannatti 4: 1499; Painnayasuttaim: I part: 1984Titthogālīpaiņņayar: (623). Painnayasuttaim :1, 1984: Titthogāli623 Tiloyapannatti, 4:1499 Kalpasūtra, Sūtra-147, p. 145 Dhavalā, 4: 1: 44: p. 132-133 . Paiņņayasuttāiṁ I, 1984, Titthogāli Paiņņayaṁ:621 Parisista Parva : 8 339 Sāmññaphalasutta: 2: 1:7 Vira Nirvāna Sarvat aura Jaina Kāla Gananā, pp. 4-5 Sāmññaphalasutta: 2:2:8 Pāsādikasutta: 6: 1:1 ira Nirvāna Saṁvat aura Jaina Kala Gananā, 1987, p. 12 Ibid, p. 4 Titthogāli-paiņņayam: 787: Paiņņaya-suttāim, I" part: 1984 Muni Kalyana Vijaya: Vikram Era 1987: p. 178 Parisista Parva, 8: 339 Patļāvali Parāga Sarngraha, p. 166; Vividhagacchiya Pattāvali Samgraha: 1 part: 1961: pp. 15, 37, 48). Titthogāli Paiņņayaṁ, 783-794